I’m going to show you how to waterproof the bathroom floor. These are my tools I’ll be using; got a bit of cleaning equipment, some safety equipment, got my primer, my stirrer, my hammer, my knife. So I have my spirit level, my scraper, my membrane, my caulking gun, and I got my silicone and my waterproofing product here.

With our first step, we’ll be cleaning the area free of dust and make it nice and smooth.

And our next step is to apply the primer.

Make sure you follow the guidelines and instructions on how to do so. When applying your primer, it’s good to start from the back corner and work your way forward. It’s also good to go up the wall a little bit.

Once I’ve done my first coat of waterproofing, I can then put on my membrane focusing on the joints and the cracks.

I’ll now roll the membrane out so I can cut to size the measurements that I need. I’m just doing bits at a time so I can still reach to the corners.

Now in order for this to stick, I’m going to apply some more waterproofing on top of it. Now if you do find it easier, you can use a paintbrush instead of a roller.

I’ll now continue to apply the waterproofing agent and membrane the rest of the floor.

Now this junk can be messy sometimes so you might want to put your gloves on. Now that I’ve been around the outsides, I’m going to continue waterproofing the floor, focusing on the joints and applying the membrane. Now I’ve finished applying my first coat of waterproofer and the membrane.

One of the considerations here is that Ro has a lot of people in this room, and we needed a lot of seating. But what we didn’t wanna do is have her guests feel like they were penned in. So, we have one large sectional sofa, that accommodates 10 people. And there’s flow through here.

So, there’s a lot going on in this room, and it actually flows into the kitchen. So we wanted the whole space to be seamless. We have consistent marble in the coffee table, and in the kitchen.

We have consistent nickel accents so all of the hardware in the kitchen as well as the pieces we’ve chosen in the living room and in this shelf are all nickel accent.

And we also have this consistent gray palette.

So we wanted to pick up the color of the veins in Ro’s marble and backsplash. And we wanted to bring that all the way through to the living room so it feels easy, styled, comfortable, but it’s one seamless space that they can utilize for Ro’s production.

Tip number three.

When you’re styling with a really muted color palette like this, think about textures. So, what makes this really interesting, even though it’s sort of shades of gray, is that, we have polished marble. We have satin nickel. We have a really great tweed.

We have silk in the rug. And we have a rough linen in the chairs. And then we’ve got this non-honed, dry finished marble on the coffee table. And what that’s allowing us to do is to mix all of these colors, but still have it be visually interesting.

So, when you go tonal, go textured. – Hey guys, we’re gonna do some tips and tricks on how we did Ro’s home office.

Tip number one, spacial configuration.

One of the biggest things we had to think about when we did Ro’s office is, where everything would go so the flow was really, really good.

We put all of our L-shaped desks back to back in order to make these zones.

One is the back area which is the private accounting zone, computers facing the wall, and the front area is the more public zone, where Ro and Molly are doing their work and they have this great seating area. So it’s broken up into two zones that are really functional.

Tip two, noise dampening in an office.

I think one of the big considerations that Ro wanted was, how do we take this space and make it much more quiet, and we did that by adding things like carpets and the sofa.

All of these bigger pieces absorb sound and now, the entire office is really calm and cozy and exactly what Ro wanted.

Tip three, cord management.

When you’re thinking about an open office plan like this, where the desks are floating, it’s really important to consider cord management.

So in the case of Ro’s office, the desks themselves came with one port for cords, and we actually custom drilled holes in the other end of the desk for Ro’s desk light, so those cords were taken care of as well. So when you walk into the space, it’s really clean and clutter free.

Here we are in Ro’s bedroom. And I wanted to talk about what we did design-wise to pull this whole room together.

So I’m gonna give you a couple of tips.

Tip number one is choose a color palette.

So in Ro’s room, we chose this really great color palette, of gray and little bit of gray-green, and linen. And so we’ve picked that up across the room.

The gray in the nightstands, linen in the headboard, we’ve got linen on the sofa, so the room feels really tied together. Because it’s got a neutral palette, it has a real sense of calm, which is something that Ro was really looking for this time around in her bedroom.

Tip number two, metallics.

So in Ro’s room, because we were working with and existing chandelier which is very sparkly, we chose to use all of these nickel accents in here to enhance the chandelier.

We also brought in some of the silver in the mercury glass side lamps. So there’s really a gray and silver and neutral palette happening here, which makes the room really calm and consistent.

Tip number three, think about room functionality.

When we came into this room, we realized that there were a couple of things going for it.

It has great light, so lots of windows. It has a very high ceiling. And it also has lots of room. And so, just like the rest of the house, Ro really wanted her bedroom to be kind of multi functional.

She wanted it to be a bedroom, but it’s also, a little bit of a media room. So we added in a seating area beside the bed and brought in side tables, which is pretty unusual for a bedroom, but actually works in here, because of the scale.

We added seating to the end of the bed, so people can watch TV or, you know, when you’re putting your shoes on, Ro can sit there, and there’s also extra seating in the corner. So this room goes beyond being a bedroom and becomes a very functional media room as well.

This time around we are showing what sort of Hollow Spiral Candlestick is actually created utilizing used cutter form shape. This isn’t the how-to tutorial, however may display the cutting processes used on Legacy’s CNC machines.

This project has three turned components, the top, the middle and the bottom. Obviously, the most interesting part is the middle hollow spiral.

However, the top and bottom are similar in design and even use the same cutters. Each part was programmed using Legacy’s exclusive Conversational CAM turning software. Let’s begin with the top and bottom components. Both blanks are turned round with a 1.25 “Surfacing” cutter.

Notice there is a thin section that was accidentally not turned round. Nevertheless, watch how easy the cutter removes the extra material with a “Plunge Flat Round over” cutter.

This cutter shape is used to turn radii and beaded profiles. After a few radii are turned, a 2 diameter “Barley Twist” profile shapes the main body of the top and bottom components.

Last, a 0.75 “Core Box” cutter turns a contour radius on the ends.

Now lets jump to the fun part, turning the hollow spiral section. Just like the top and bottom components, the blank is turned round. Afterwards, the same 2 “Barley Twist” cutter that was used previously is also used to turn two cutter profiles on either end.

Didn’t use a toilet seat cover in that public restroom? You may regret it

Are you afraid of contracting a terrible disease from using a public restroom? How dirty are those toilets really? And how useful are those annoying paper covers that always tear and then fall into the bowl after you’ve set them down anyway?

Well, according to modern science, those paper covers, don’t actually do very much Concern over the possibility of contracting disease from public restrooms has been around for over 100 years. US patents for sanitation covers for latrine seats date back as far as 1911 and I believe it was the late great Louis Pasteur* one of the founders of germ theory who said: Women, it is best to hover when peeing (*Louis Pasteur definitely did NOT say this).

We know bathrooms and kitchens are a hot bed of bacteria and other microorganisms due to the abundance of moisture and nutrients.

Toilet seats are known hang outs for disease agents like E. Coli, strep- and, staphylococcus bacteria, and the common cold but studies have shown that the toilet bowl isn’t the worst offender when it comes to germs – I will never eat off of anything touched by a kitchen sponge again.

Also, unless you have an open sore or other breach in the protective body casing that is your skin, the chance of disease transmission through toilet seat use is slim. People have gotten their knickers in a bunch over the safety of toilet seats when a few cases of sexually transmitted diseases cropped up in individuals who claimed that they could not have contracted their infections through the usual manner.

Dirty toilet seats were blamed but scientists have repeatedly refuted this conclusion on the grounds that the infectious agents are not viable for long outside a host body and transmission requires direct contact with mucosal membranes. Actually, according to a paper in the journal of Applied and Environmental Microbiology you are far more likely to get sick by breathing the aerosolized bacteria in water droplets from your flush than you are from copping a squat. There is a psychological factor at work here though. For some people, the act of using a disposable seat cover just makes them feel safer and thats hard to argue with.

But if youre looking for habits more conducive to disease prevention than using a toilet seat cover wash your hands with soap and water. Yep, thats it. Thats the best way to avoid getting sick from the use of a public restroom is to wash your hands. Also when possible, close the toilet seat cover before you flush. (Or at least dont stand with your face over the toilet when you do).

So what have we learned? Toilets are not the worst offenders of disease transmission and Nature has once again beat out Man in efficient engineering of sanitary barriers through the evolution of skin. So let us know what you think! Are toilet seat covers a wasteful american phenomenon or necessary precaution?

Probably after San Xavier Mission, Old Main is the most important building in Southern Arizona. I don’t think you’d get a lot of arguments about that. The importance of it relative to the University of Arizona, and the importance of the University of Arizona in this community. And so when you get to work on that, that’s spectacular.

When you get to work on a building that is not just important, but as we’ve worked on the building, we’ve come to understand what a great building it is. What a great building it is for this climate, for the U of A campus, for this community.

And to get to follow in the footsteps of the architect and builder who did that project in 1887 to 1891 is privilege. How often do you get to do that? The way we practice architecture is very much tied to this place, a sense of place, and Tucson is a very demanding climate.

And it’s also a location with a big, long cultural history. And the buildings that we try to do, that are contemporary buildings, all need to respond to the desert environment, and all need to be responsive to the culture of this place. And that’s what I mean by sense of place. And people use it in terms of art.

People use it in terms of music. It’s the connection between an art form or a design, and the location in which it’s placed. So when we first started the project, there was this rumor floating around. And the rumor floating around was that the floor between the upper level and the lower level was filled with dirt.

And we didn’t know if that was true or not. It was a pretty strong rumor and, sure enough, the entire floor, about 12,000 square feet of floor between the first and second, has about 2 and 1/2 inches of dirt covering the entire space between the floor and the ceiling.

And the reason they did that was for sound attenuation, that you had a wooden floor with a wooden structure sitting over classrooms over classrooms. And people were worried that as people walked on the floor, that the sound would reverberate down.

And a good way to deaden sound is with a massive material, a heavy material, and so dirt was the perfect material to use. So when you opened up the floor, you were looking at all dirt, and we were looking at the floor after they took the dirt out, and we noticed that there were pieces, every once in awhile, that were painted.

And we couldn’t figure out what that was until we took all those out and put them together in a puzzle, and it turned out it was the original construction sign with the name of the contractor on it. And they just cut that up in little pieces and used that for the shelving.

What the architect, James Creighton, did is he understood that over the years this building was going to grow and change. The demands on it were going to change over time. And so what he built was a very simple structure, in which it consists of a cruciform, and then he built four quadrants, four big rooms. And then he built two wings, north and south, which were all originally empty.

And he designed that so that all of the people at the University of Arizona that followed could modify those spaces as they needed them over hundreds of years. And so our intent is to take this historic shell and make it back the way it was when it was first built, and then go in and fill in that shell with all brand new uses, with new technology, and new offices, and new furniture, and be able to tell the difference. So when you walk into Old Main, you will understand that you’re looking at a modern interior in a historic building. I’m going to really honored to be part of this next iteration this next group of users that try to respect that original building.

We had a really nice visit with President Hart. And we were standing in this big open space, and we were talking about the glass walls and the contemporary materials. And I just turned to her, and I said you know this gives me a little bit of goosebumps, because this is exactly what James Creighton intended us to do when he finished the building in 1891. He knew that 122 years later, folks would be in here doing exactly what we’re doing.